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The in-game band Poppin’Party from the smartphone game ‘BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!’ covering the song ‘Moré! Mi Amore’ became a hot topic on 5ch’s Hello! Project board. Fans noted the voice cast reportedly got genuinely hyped during the live stream, and the thread also re-introduced the five voice actresses behind the band — including Megumi as Kasumi Toyama and Sae Otsuka as Tae Hanazono. Discussion ranged from whether the song choice really suits Poppin’Party, to the observation that a lot of the cast are Hello! Project fans themselves, to the eye-popping figure that gacha sales for August alone hit ¥148 million — pushing the thread from song-choice debate all the way into revenue numbers.
What people said
Kasumi Toyama (voiced by Megumi)
Tae Hanazono (voiced by Sae Otsuka)
Rimi Ushigome (voiced by Rimi Nishimoto)
Saaya Yamabuki (voiced by Ayaka Ohashi)
Arisa Ichigaya (voiced by Ayasa Ito)
She's also kept in touch with Reon Inoue of the idol group Juice=Juice ever since the two appeared together on a radio show.[13]
Ayasa Ito
Among idols, she's a Hello! Project fan, and especially loves BEYOOOOONDS.[16]
@ayasa_ito
#HelloProjectStreamingUnlocked
Playlist 1⃣ 'If I Were a Hello! Member'
If I were a Hello! Project member, these are the songs I'd want to perform:
・At a Hello! Con shuffle unit
・If I won the lottery at Hina Fes
・At a solo fes
Hope you enjoy 🤲🏻
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Wouldn't Afterglow fit it better?
Poppin'Party's doing it? Feels like it could've gone to a different group just as easily.
they pulled in ¥148 million in August alone.
These guys are killing it.
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
In the thread, ‘Moré! Mi Amore’ is only ever referred to as a ‘song from the golden era,’ with no further detail given on the original track’s origins. The main point of contention was whether the song choice actually fits — several posters argued that a different group’s style, such as Afterglow’s, would have suited it better than Poppin’Party’s, while others defended the pick by noting that voice actress Megumi and others have a track record of covering golden-era Hello! Project songs. A second thread of conversation centered on the ties between the cast and Hello! Project itself, highlighting Sae Otsuka’s ongoing relationship with Juice=Juice’s Reon Inoue and Ayasa Ito’s love of BEYOOOOONDS, which led some to reminisce about the once-fierce rivalry between voice-actor fans and idol fans and how that dynamic looks today. Note that the ¥148 million figure is total gacha sales for the month of August as a whole, not a number reflecting the reaction to this cover specifically — an easy point to misread.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread ‘BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Covers ‘Moré! Mi Amore’ wwwwwwwwww‘.
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